British observers post best butterfly census numbers since 2019, but gains were uneven #LepLog #lepidoptera www.bbc.com/news/uk-6681...
UK butterfly numbers at highest level since 2019
But scientists warn that some species could decline in the long term due to habitat loss.
www.bbc.com
September 15, 2023 at 8:25 PM
British observers post best butterfly census numbers since 2019, but gains were uneven #LepLog #lepidoptera www.bbc.com/news/uk-6681...
Atala Butterfly Fluttering Back from Near Extinction #LepLog #lepidoptera #butterflies www.coastalbreezenews.com/lifestyles/e... via @CoastalBNews
Atala Butterfly Fluttering Back from Near Extinction
Atala Butterfly Fluttering Back from Near Extinction
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May 17, 2024 at 3:08 PM
Atala Butterfly Fluttering Back from Near Extinction #LepLog #lepidoptera #butterflies www.coastalbreezenews.com/lifestyles/e... via @CoastalBNews
Insecticide is the main driver of Midwest butterfly decline www.futurity.org/butterflies-... #LepLog #lepidoptera
Insecticide is the main driver of Midwest butterfly decline
Insecticide use is the single largest factor in the decline of butterfly abundance and species diversity in the Midwest, a new study shows.
www.futurity.org
June 24, 2024 at 10:14 PM
Insecticide is the main driver of Midwest butterfly decline www.futurity.org/butterflies-... #LepLog #lepidoptera
Surprise RNAs solve mystery of how butterfly wings get their colorful patterns | Science | AAAS #LepLog #lepidoptera #evolution www.science.org/content/arti...
Surprise RNAs solve mystery of how butterfly wings get their colorful patterns
Understudied means of regulating genes likely widespread in butterflies—and perhaps other animals
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February 29, 2024 at 6:16 PM
Surprise RNAs solve mystery of how butterfly wings get their colorful patterns | Science | AAAS #LepLog #lepidoptera #evolution www.science.org/content/arti...
If you haven’t yet figured out a good reason to participate in our spring and summer North American Butterfly Association (NABA) butterfly counts, here’s one: It’s good for you. #LepLog #lepidoptera #butterflies #conservation #citizenscience leplog.wordpress.com/2024/03/09/i...
If not for the butterflies, do it for yourself
Bryce Canyon National Park (Utah) 2022 annual butterfly count [photo credit National Park Service] If you haven't yet figured out a good reason to participate in our spring and summer North American B...
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March 9, 2024 at 9:04 PM
If you haven’t yet figured out a good reason to participate in our spring and summer North American Butterfly Association (NABA) butterfly counts, here’s one: It’s good for you. #LepLog #lepidoptera #butterflies #conservation #citizenscience leplog.wordpress.com/2024/03/09/i...
Do Butterflies Remember Being Caterpillars? #LepLog #lepidoptera #butterflies www.iflscience.com/do-butterfli...
Do Butterflies Remember Being Caterpillars?
Amazingly, it appears memories can survive the metamorphosis.
www.iflscience.com
February 15, 2024 at 4:57 PM
Do Butterflies Remember Being Caterpillars? #LepLog #lepidoptera #butterflies www.iflscience.com/do-butterfli...
While the common narrative about insect biodiversity loss suggests it's rare species we're losing, in fact the loss is mostly from common to abundant species--which may be even more worrisome. #LepLog #lepidoptera www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Disproportionate declines of formerly abundant species underlie insect loss - Nature
An analysis of more than 500 sites distributed worldwide finds that declines in the abundance of terrestrial insects are attributable mainly to decreases in species that were formerly abundant, r...
www.nature.com
December 20, 2023 at 8:40 PM
While the common narrative about insect biodiversity loss suggests it's rare species we're losing, in fact the loss is mostly from common to abundant species--which may be even more worrisome. #LepLog #lepidoptera www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A somewhat early Sachem, Atalopedes huron (nee campestris), on some Peach Drift landscape roses at Patuxent Nursery near Bowie MD this afternoon. #LepLog #lepidoptera
May 11, 2024 at 10:56 PM
A somewhat early Sachem, Atalopedes huron (nee campestris), on some Peach Drift landscape roses at Patuxent Nursery near Bowie MD this afternoon. #LepLog #lepidoptera
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Beauty, Bias, and Butterflies
The species beauty index (SBI) for European butterflies Among butterflies, it’s not the squeaky wheels that get the conservation grease. It’s the pretty wheels. We’ve observed thi…
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September 5, 2026 at 10:43 PM
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Why do moths fly in circles around a light? They can't tell 'up' from 'down' #LepLog #lepidoptera #moths www.gpb.org/news/2024/01...
Why do moths fly in circles around a light? They can't tell 'up' from 'down'
Those insects you see flying in crazed circles are trying to keep their backs towards the light because they think that direction is up, new research suggests.
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January 30, 2024 at 6:18 PM
Why do moths fly in circles around a light? They can't tell 'up' from 'down' #LepLog #lepidoptera #moths www.gpb.org/news/2024/01...
Letting lawn grass grow longer boosts UK butterfly populations #LepLog #lepidoptera www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Letting grass grow long boosts butterfly numbers, UK study proves
Analysis of 600 gardens shows wilder lawns feed caterpillars and create breeding habitat
www.theguardian.com
April 19, 2024 at 7:03 PM
Letting lawn grass grow longer boosts UK butterfly populations #LepLog #lepidoptera www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Rare butterfly subspecies only found on Pa. military base should be listed as endangered, feds say. Eastern subspecies of Regal Fritillary is the butterfly in question #LepLog phys.org/news/2024-08... photo CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
August 15, 2024 at 11:41 PM
Rare butterfly subspecies only found on Pa. military base should be listed as endangered, feds say. Eastern subspecies of Regal Fritillary is the butterfly in question #LepLog phys.org/news/2024-08... photo CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
For the past five years, a small agrarian town called Iijima in Japan's Nagano prefecture has partnered with researchers from the University of Tokyo to bring the Reverdin's blue butterfly back from the brink. #LepLog #lepidoptera news.mongabay.com/2023/12/japa...
Japanese butterfly conservation takes flight when integrated with human communities
Since the last ice age, a butterfly species called the Reverdin’s blue (Plebejus argyrognomon, known as miyamashijimi in Japanese), has survived in Japan’s grasslands maintained by human agricultu...
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December 9, 2023 at 4:17 AM
For the past five years, a small agrarian town called Iijima in Japan's Nagano prefecture has partnered with researchers from the University of Tokyo to bring the Reverdin's blue butterfly back from the brink. #LepLog #lepidoptera news.mongabay.com/2023/12/japa...
At solar farms planted with native vegetation, insects flourish--particularly encouraging was the growth of pollinators, such as moths, butterflies, beetles, hornets, wasps, and bees. #LepLog #butterflies e360.yale.edu/digest/solar...
At Solar Farms Planted with Native Vegetation, Insects Flourish
e360.yale.edu
January 18, 2024 at 9:18 PM
At solar farms planted with native vegetation, insects flourish--particularly encouraging was the growth of pollinators, such as moths, butterflies, beetles, hornets, wasps, and bees. #LepLog #butterflies e360.yale.edu/digest/solar...
Polluted Flowers Smell Less Sweet to Pollinators, Study Finds #LepLog #lepidoptera www.nytimes.com/2024/02/08/s...
Polluted Flowers Smell Less Sweet to Pollinators, Study Finds
The research, involving primroses and hawk moths, suggests that air pollution could be interfering with plant reproduction.
www.nytimes.com
February 10, 2024 at 5:19 PM
Polluted Flowers Smell Less Sweet to Pollinators, Study Finds #LepLog #lepidoptera www.nytimes.com/2024/02/08/s...
Scots volunteers sought to help habitat of endangered butterflies #LepLog #lepidoptera www.deadlinenews.co.uk/2023/10/12/s...
Scots volunteers sought to help habitat of endangered butterflies
Scots volunteers are being sought to help enhance the habitat for one of the UK's most endangered butterflies.
www.deadlinenews.co.uk
October 12, 2023 at 6:32 PM
Scots volunteers sought to help habitat of endangered butterflies #LepLog #lepidoptera www.deadlinenews.co.uk/2023/10/12/s...
Butterfly genomes have barely changed over the past 250M years #LepLog #lepidoptera www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Butterfly genomes have barely changed for 250m years, study reveals
Analysis gives clues as to why butterflies and moths have been resilient through dramatic changes on Earth – and could help with future conservation
www.theguardian.com
February 21, 2024 at 11:54 PM
Butterfly genomes have barely changed over the past 250M years #LepLog #lepidoptera www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Butterfly battle: scientists disagree on how milkweed affects a parasitic spread in monarchs #LepLog #lepidoptera www.wusf.org/environment/...
Butterfly battle: scientists disagree on how milkweed affects a parasitic spread in monarchs
An open letter to Floridians about a parasite in monarch butterflies has become controversial as some researchers suggest removing milkweed entirely will prevent the spread; others suggest that people...
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May 2, 2024 at 6:19 PM
Butterfly battle: scientists disagree on how milkweed affects a parasitic spread in monarchs #LepLog #lepidoptera www.wusf.org/environment/...
Where Did Butterflies Come From? This Scientist Is On the Case - Smithsonian Magazine - #LepLog #lepidoptera #butterflies goo.gl/alerts/U7c9g9
Where Did Butterflies Come From? This Scientist Is On the Case
Akito Kawahara has spent his life devoted to lepidoptera. Now he’s correcting the record on where they first evolved
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February 15, 2024 at 4:50 PM
Where Did Butterflies Come From? This Scientist Is On the Case - Smithsonian Magazine - #LepLog #lepidoptera #butterflies goo.gl/alerts/U7c9g9
Climate change is making it tough on bees, butterflies, and other pollinators; now the state may try to protect them #LepLog #lepidoptera #pollinators www.cpr.org/2024/03/03/c...
Climate change is making it tough on bees, butterflies, and other pollinators; now the state may try to protect them
A first-of-its-kind study outlines threats to the state’s pollinators.
www.cpr.org
March 3, 2024 at 6:14 PM
Climate change is making it tough on bees, butterflies, and other pollinators; now the state may try to protect them #LepLog #lepidoptera #pollinators www.cpr.org/2024/03/03/c...
Amazonian Butterfly a Result of Two Species Hybridizing 200,000 Years Ago | Technology Networks #LepLog #lepidoptera www.technologynetworks.com/genomics/new...
Amazonian Butterfly a Result of Two Species Hybridizing 200,000 Years Ago
The formation of new species can be more complex than previously imagined, highlights a new study that shows an Amazonian butterfly is a result of hybrid speciation 200,000 years ago.
www.technologynetworks.com
April 18, 2024 at 3:56 PM
Amazonian Butterfly a Result of Two Species Hybridizing 200,000 Years Ago | Technology Networks #LepLog #lepidoptera www.technologynetworks.com/genomics/new...
Look-alike butterflies mimic each others' behaviors to further confuse predators #LepLog #lepidoptera #evolution www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
Butterflies mimic each other’s flight behaviour to avoid predators
Researchers have shown that inedible species of butterfly, that mimic each other's colour patterns, have also evolved similar flight behaviours to warn predators and avoid being eaten.
www.york.ac.uk
February 28, 2024 at 6:13 PM
Look-alike butterflies mimic each others' behaviors to further confuse predators #LepLog #lepidoptera #evolution www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
Imageomics poised to enable new understanding of life #LepLog #lepidoptera news.osu.edu/imageomics-p...
Imageomics poised to enable new understanding of life
Imageomics, a new field of science, has made stunning progress in the past year and is on the verge of major discoveries about life on Earth, according to one of the founders of the discipline.Tanya B...
news.osu.edu
February 18, 2024 at 6:11 PM
Imageomics poised to enable new understanding of life #LepLog #lepidoptera news.osu.edu/imageomics-p...
For many in the UK, 2024 was the year without a butterfly #LepLog #lepidoptera #butterflies theconversation.com/for-many-in-... via @ConversationUK
For many in the UK, 2024 was the year without a butterfly
The Big Butterfly Count reported its worst results in 14 years of monitoring UK species.
theconversation.com
September 19, 2024 at 6:15 PM
For many in the UK, 2024 was the year without a butterfly #LepLog #lepidoptera #butterflies theconversation.com/for-many-in-... via @ConversationUK
'Emergency' declared over falling UK butterfly numbers #LepLog #lepidoptera #butterflies phys.org/news/2024-09...
'Emergency' declared over falling UK butterfly numbers
Conservationists on Wednesday voiced concern at a fall in the number of butterflies found in the UK, declaring a "butterfly emergency" and calling for greater protections for under-threat species.
phys.org
September 18, 2024 at 6:36 PM
'Emergency' declared over falling UK butterfly numbers #LepLog #lepidoptera #butterflies phys.org/news/2024-09...